Neil Sandell hears voices for a living. He is a senior producer at CBC Radio. He produced the CBC's Outfront for five years. His documentaries been honoured by the Gabriel Awards, the New York Festivals, Amnesty International, the RTNDA, the Gracies, and the Third Coast Festival. My Life So Far was a selection at the IFC in 2009 in Dublin. Sandell has taught radio workshops in Oslo, Chicago, Alert Bay BC ,and Nuuk, Greenland. In 2009 he created a Chicago Sound Drop called Carl, with an El.

Everyone’s telling their story these days –- in blogs, podcasts, on YouTube. But what makes one story a yawn or self-indulgent and another one compelling? How do you tell a personal story as a radio documentary? (more)

To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music. (more)

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